A longtime associate of reputed Outfit bosses Peter and John DiFronzo was convicted Monday of extortion for threatening a deadbeat suburban businessman and then hiring a team of goons to break the victim's legs months later when he still wouldn't pay up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

A Park Ridge man arrested for allegedly threatening a cab driver outside a Niles bar last month was arrested for a second time in roughly two weeks after police were reportedly called to his apartment building for an unrelated incident.

Several tombstones in Park Ridge’s Town of Maine Cemetery were damaged and three people injured Saturday when a woman drove through a red light and knocked another vehicle and her own into the cemetery, police said.